AXIOM BootCamp 1, Craig Morrow, Oct 2021, Session 2

Session 2 of 4

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All right.

Good morning, everybody.

How we be today on this lovely Saturday, or for some of y'all afternoon.

Welcome to day five of Axiom Bootcamp.

How we be today?

As usual, I'll let everybody kind of get settled in, make sure everybody's logged in, and you can hear me and see me, and then we'll get going with the good stuff.

All right, bad habits are hard to break, they are hard to break, but that doesn't mean they can't be broken.

As everybody's getting settled in, logged in, making sure things are good, just make sure let me know.

Uh, if you can't hear me, if you can't see me.

It's one of these things where I've got my feed right here.

And, uh, as Chris can attest to, we do so many testing bells and whistles before we get on camera.

But until we start feeding to you guys, we have no idea.

All right.

Great color choice today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You need to buy furniture.

If I buy furniture, if I put furniture all in here, I've got no place to swing.

As you know, what's more important?

Let's think about it.

What's more important, your golf swing or furniture?

I mean, it's all about priorities.

Where are we supposed to download the copy?

Hey, Daryl, if you didn't send an email to customer service and get that copy, I've been sending copies to players that haven't gotten it yet.

If you don't get one by the end of this session, you can email me, just craig at rotarieswing.

com, and I'll get you a copy straight over.

Let's see.

It'll be great weather this week in Texas for golf.

Fantastic.

And I'm going to kick you outside, too, for today's session.

So if you can, or you have the ability, weather-wise, what have you, to get outside and test some of this stuff, this is going to be the session.

Give just a couple more minutes.

Make sure everybody getting in there.

And speaking of sending the boot camp, I sent one to Todd right there this morning.

So how did everybody do?

How's everybody feeling with this?

We have some success so far?

I'll get into some stories that I've heard so far when we start breaking this down.

Good stuff?

Bad stuff?

Creating lag for the first time.

Love it, Brad.

Love it.

Hey, Juergen, how are we doing today?

One of my longtime compadres on the board.

Good, but some loss of balance.

No swing thoughts.

That's lovely.

In different parts of the world, I keep hearing at least on this board weather's been good took the dog for the walk this morning uh 19.

well the actual temperature was 24 but it said it felt like 19.

A little bit different for the Southern boy.

Biggest aha moment so far in my golf swing.

All right, nice.

I want to have a club in my hand.

My mechanics just aren't as smooth.

Yeah, it'll take some time, Daryl.

I mean, it's just one of the things.

Let's see.

Yeah, most people are in here, so I'll go ahead and just start talking about that.

I'm going to answer Daryl's question, but for this session, since this format and this software works much better than the ones that we previously used, for the comments, you know, highs, hellos, weather, positive stuff, all that.

Try to put the questions, if you have an actual question about this one, try to put it in the question tab.

It's much easier for me, I found out, to go to there than scroll through the chat.

I know I may have missed a couple questions in the last boot camp.

And that's just because on my screen, it's small and I'm having to fly through it.

But if it's in the question tab and I know what it's about.

So if you have questions, put them in the question tab.

Now, Daryl, that's one of the things with when you start changing the golf swing and especially adding the club and adding more pace, it's kind of like I tell my students a lot, it's like snapping.

When you first learn to snap, it's very awkward and clunky.

It's just like, all right, am I going to get this?

I don't know.

But then when you finally get it to do it, it's like, okay, now I can finally do this.

And then now I've done it so much.

Now I don't have to think about it and I can do it at pace.

When you start adding the club, it's going to feel weird.

It's going to be wonky and it's going to be like, I'm never going to get this.

Just stick with it.

It's like just learning to snap or anything that you've ever done.

It's just training a new movement pattern.

Hey, Axel, how are we doing this morning?

Watching with Romy.

Fantastic.

Let's see.

Uh, I'm going to go for the first just couple minutes, I'm going to go to the question tab.

Just answer a couple questions that I see and I know Chris will answer a few of those as well as he's still on the board and thank you for that, Chris.

And then I'm going to get started because we've got some good material to cover today.

So you have a tendency Giles to Fall forward when you move on your right toe.

Why?

Typically when you're balanced and everything's moving forward, as you start to go this way, you're adding upper half.

More than likely as you start to come down, you're trying to race with your upper half as well, adding a little bit too much kind of right side dominance or shoulder spin.

So when you start to make this motion over here to the toe, you're probably adding a lot of upper half force and that's what's driving that momentum out towards it.

We're supposed to download a copy of the PDF.

Yeah, Daryl already got that one.

Right glute's a little sore.

Just underused muscles now that I'm getting deep or bad technique.

No, Daryl.

I mean, can bad technique lead to sore muscles?

Absolutely.

But more than likely, you're starting to use things for the first time, like going to the gym for the first time.

I remember the first time.

Yeah, when I came to Rotary Way over a decade ago, when I was working with Chuck.

And I had a really big problem, kind of getting my left glute to activate and shifting.

And we did so much work that day, I remember waking up in my hotel room the next morning.

I've never felt my left butt cheek in my entire life, I felt it that morning.

So it should be a good sign.

Let's see beyond reps, which I'm trying not to skip.

Any tips on overcoming the mental switch that occurs when playing around, I seem to get automatically to try to muscle the swing.

Today's session will be good for you, David.

I mean, the the mental trick to this.

In the beginning, you can't worry about results.

It's more about the motion, and when you're trying to play a lot during a swing change, it's a little bit tough.

But today's actually, I think, going to be a big light bulb moment for you on that one.

The screen is extremely dark.

My screen or this screen?

This one, I know you're not going to be able to see.

It doesn't matter.

I've tried every setting under the planet to try to lighten, darken, the light sensors, all these things.

Right now, you can kind of see it, but at least better than the evening time.

I apologize.

I'm going to keep working with that, or I don't know.

Maybe I just have to buy a new TV.

Let's see.

When we start the weight on the ankles, that isn't at 12 o'clock, right?

More like four or five.

Gregory, I really don't want you to think of, you know, like, okay, well, I'm right here on the foot.

I'm going to start at 12, and now I'm going to kind of go one, two, three, four, five.

When you're balanced right here and you're kind of centered over your ankle joints, I mean, for some players, they may feel two back to six.

They may feel four back to six.

The goal is getting just the motion and getting that circular movement going, it's not about starting like exactly on the toes, let's see.

So I notice I hit it better as I start the downswing at six and right knee replace left knee.

Good, it's right where it starts, you get to six Trying to replace the knee but still fall back.

Need to get better balance.

Today I'll help you out with that, Thomas.

Because more than likely, you're caught in between how you're actually going to release the club.

When we start talking about releasing the club, I think that's going to balance you out because I think you're just caught in between.

Wrists are sore.

Must be doing something, right?

Once the weight goes to the left foot, should it start on the toes and then work towards the left heel?

Exactly.

It's going to move towards the ball of the foot, Jeff, and then move back towards the heel.

I think it'd look good in my video, but I would feel better if you looked at it.

Is that an option?

Absolutely, Todd.

That's what the community's for.

You can use the community, swing reviews, unlimited review groups, live lessons.

Happy to do it.

You can see Greg on the board was talking about the success that he had this week.

He gave me three videos on the community.

where I was helping them out, making sure that things were hunky-dory.

We're here to help you.

We want you to get this.

All right, I'm going to get two more, and then we're going to go.

When you get to 6 o'clock, it does feel like most of the weight on that side is mostly on the heel.

Yes.

My right hip, bone on bone.

Hard to get as many reps as I would like.

We'll have to take a look at that one, Greg.

All right.

Chris, 10 minutes in.

Let's go.

All right.

Don't worry, I just try to make sure all my bases are covered with everybody.

Don't worry, you get some good stuff today.

So let's talk about what we want to do today, or let's talk about where we're going with this.

Okay, so today we're going to talk about the release, because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how good the swing is if you don't release it.

It's kind of all for naught.

So hopefully we had some good success in between last session and this session, and I've gotten some great feedback from players that are feeling new things, seen some really good results so far, feeling shallow for the first time, started to create a little bit more lag.

And after we talk about this release, if you have any questions about the prior boot camp, if you need any other little helps and tricks to kind of get things going, happy to help you out with that.

This is very important.

And like I said, I know that this is going to be a little bit washed out.

And I know that some of y 'all don't have the PDF.

I just, I can't get to it right now.

So just bear with me.

Just if you don't have the PDF, get a sheet of paper, just take some notes.

I'm going to follow along exactly what's on this.

So you'll be able to go back and be like, oh, Craig said this.

It's point A, you know, section one, what have you.

So with the release, You got to pick a side.

And what I mean is, is that most players are going to typically be either lead side dominant or trail side dominant.

So for right-handed players, it's going to be either your left hand or your right hand or left side or right side.

Neither one is incorrect.

One is just going to typically suit a player better than another.

Now, personally speaking, when I first came to Rotary, 14, 15 years ago, I was a right side releaser.

And I spent all the time and did all the training.

And I turned myself into a left side releaser.

I can release from my right side.

I can release from my left side.

I personally stick with my left.

I spent a lot of years training it.

I like the ebb and flow of it, which we'll talk about.

So I've stuck with my left side.

The problem is, is a lot of you at home that are kind of right side dominant or more right side dominant.

You may not have.

The time that I had, I was playing for a living and I that was my job, so being that it was my job, I had the time to do it.

Some players just don't have the time, and some players just don't want to retrain an entire side of their body.

It's like, well, you know, I'm right side dominant.

I've done everything with my right side my entire life.

why can't you just help me use that side better?

Well, we're obviously in the business of being safe and efficient.

So we had to figure out how we could do that, protecting your body at the same time.

And so now we have an option.

You've got an option to be a left side release or a right side release.

And what I want to do is I want to talk about the differences.

I want to talk about the checkpoints.

And then one of the questions that I had on the community.

was how big a role does the ball play in this boot camp?

Because in prior boot camps, you don't have the ball until a little bit later.

I want you to take the information that I'm giving you today.

I want you to go out and do it.

I don't want you to waste any time.

I want you to go out and test it out because we're going to take this information and blend it into what we're doing on Tuesday's session.

So I need you to go out and test it.

If you can't, you can't get to a driving range.

Try a foam ball.

Try a potato.

Do what you can, because I really want you to start to kind of gauge what works best for you.

Just making sure.

Okay.

So the first thing that we're going to talk about is the release and which side.

And I want to make sure that, okay, I want to make sure I was on the right page.

You need to go test this out.

I'm going to tell you how I want you to test this out, but I want you to start to decide which side is more dominant for you.

And I'm going to give you some tips, see which one fits you better.

But I want you to do them both.

I think that's the big thing.

Some people come with this kind of preconceived notion like, oh, I'm just right side dominant.

I've been right side dominant.

So I'm just going to stick with that.

Try them both.

All right.

I never thought I would be a left side releaser.

But I am.

So I want you to try on both.

Experiment.

Now, the differences in the types of releases, that's the kind of big one.

So let's go with left first.

With left side releasers, it's going to be more of a classical version of the golf swing and a little bit kind of effortless.

So when you look at a left side releaser like an Ernie Els, myself, you're going to see a more classical version of the swing.

It's typically going to be a lot more rotation, a longer, more lackadaisical move, a more effortless move because you're having to combine a lot of different principles to get some good power out of it.

You're more focusing on kind of sequencing and hitting these kind of checkpoints along the way, stretching muscle, activating muscle, engaging.

The big thing in more of an effortless left side release is it must be passive.

Okay, so you'll see that I've got effortless and then less controlled and manipulated.

Those are very two big things with a left side release.

When you're controlling the club with your left side, this arm and hand must be very passive.

I'm using my body pivot and my rotation to move my arm and hand down, and kind of use this double pendulum from my lead shoulder socket or my left shoulder socket.

As I start to come down here, the arm, the hand, I've got this pendulum from my shoulder, then I've got this releasing from my wrist.

Now, the big thing with a left side release is you can't force that to happen.

It needs to happen automatically, and it needs to happen as a byproduct of everything else that you're doing.

So this side has to be very passive, very effortless.

You're using more physics than a left side release, okay?

And we'll talk about more of the physics in a second.

But the big thing is you're kind of not in control of your car on this one.

Not your hands.

You're not steering anything with this.

This is the kind of letting it go release.

Now, you'll see right here, the club will always be rotating.

In a left side release, the club's always going to be rotating.

Not at one point do I want you to try to steer the face, nor control the face.

If you're tending to be the player that wants to.

kind of air a little bit more side on a draw.

And that doesn't mean that right side releasers can't hit draws.

Okay.

But a left side releaser is going to tend to air a little bit more towards a draw.

Because you're going to have this natural rotation of the toe around the heel, squaring the face and rotating.

And it's going to tend to lead itself towards hitting a little bit more of a draw by a shot.

So when we look at a left side release, It's got to be very passive, you're using your sequencing, there's not a whole lot of effort, you're using a lot of your body pivot.

And you kind of got to let the club do what it wants to do.

You're using the wider radius, you're using width as your ally.

Now, in the right side release, the swing is going to typically be a little bit more compact.

Now, if you have this PDF, you'll see the difference.

On the top version with Chuck, you're going to see this long left arm swing where that club's parallel to the ground.

Then you're going to see this right arm swing where it's a little bit more compact, a little shorter.

Now, he doesn't have a full shoulder rotation there, and we'd like a little bit more at that point.

This is more kind of sequencing the downswing, but it's going to be a more compact and with effort.

If you're the type of player that has struggled with.

letting it go.

Just, all right, I'm, you know, I'm just going to kind of sit and be laid back and kind of let this swing develop and let this happen.

The right side release might be better for you.

If you're just somebody that's like, I'll go, no quit.

Yeah.

Not, you know, not kind of Freddie laid back, but you're more of that wired guy.

I got all the caffeine.

I'm ready to go.

The right side of release may be for you because the thing is, is you can exert force.

This is the release where not I'm just kind of letting things kind of happen.

This is going to be more like your throwing motion, like throwing a ball or throwing anything that you want, throwing a club down the fairway, to be honest with you.

This is going to be more snappy.

You're using your trail arm and your trail side to exert force on this club.

And it's a little bit more kind of a thrust.

We don't really technically want to call it a push release, but you're using the thrust.

You're using the speed.

It's compact.

It's accelerating.

This is what's really propelling the club into impact.

So if you have a hard time kind of letting go and you like to add muscular effort, the right side release may be better suited for you.

Now, you're going to see two sections of this.

You're going to see more control and the club will stay more stable through the hitting area.

Now, in the left side release, You're letting this club just kind of do what it wants.

This club's rotating back and through because the club's always rotating.

You're just like, I don't have a care in the world.

In the right side release, you can keep this face a little bit square towards the target or through the hitting area to have better quality shots.

If you don't like the letting go, letting.

Physics take the wheel then.

This allows you to use a little bit more of your trail side to basically keep the face a little bit square.

Now, one of the big things that people kind of misconstrued with this right side release is this face stays square all the way down here.

That's a big exaggeration, Okay, so some players have been like, well, I've looked at the tape drill, and I've looked at the left versus right video, and they start hitting all these kind of squirting shots.

This is happening very fast.

It's in a very brief moment or very small window.

When you're using the right side release, this face is going to stay square for just a little bit more through the hitting area.

It's going to feel like it's going down the target line a little bit more.

But that club is still going to rotate.

You're not sitting there, just holding it off for dear life.

You're just controlling it through impact a little bit more.

Okay, because you are adding the force to it.

Okay, and that's what I want to talk about.

So if you're thinking when you're experimenting going left versus right, If you're thinking you're going to be more of a left side releaser, let's talk about what you kind of really have to do with it.

So in a left side release or lead side dominant, you have to focus on allowing the club to square itself.

And that's the big one.

So how do we allow the club to square itself?

Well, in a left side release, as you start to work into impact, this club is going to rotate.

But this club isn't going to rotate.

If you are still rotating, right?

That's the big one.

As I start to work into impact and this club's working down into here and this club rotates, you essentially kind of have to slam on the brakes because you want the club, you want Sir Isaac Newton squaring up the face for you.

Now, we have tons of videos on the site, you know, five minutes, perfect release, BJ release drill, left-hand power release drill, tons of different videos to talk about this.

But the big thing is that this club wants to rotate.

You've got the shaft and the heel, heel -toe balance.

This toe wants to rotate around this heel.

And typically, in a properly released golf shot, this toe is rotating 12 miles an hour faster, and the center of the face is rotating 6 to 8 miles an hour faster than the heel.

So if you want 6 to 8 miles an hour for free, then what you have to do is you have to allow this face to rotate itself, but you can't do that if you are still rotating.

If I start to work down into the release and I'm gonna be a left side releaser and my shoulders keep spinning, what's this club not doing now?

If I get down here and I rip my shoulders down, you can see that this club isn't square.

But if I get up here and I start to work down and my shoulders stay square and this club continues to release independently of my body, This club now has to rotate.

As long as I'm passive, as long as I've got the tension out, focusing a little bit more on these last three lead fingers, this club will square itself.

It's one of the reasons why I tend to prefer a little bit more of a left side because I don't want to have to worry about controlling anything.

It's like I just get down here and I just let the club rotate.

Do what you want.

But the shoulders must stay square.

What Chris and myself see all the time is that players will come down here in a lead side release, and as they start to get through here, they forget that the shoulders need to stay square, and they rip their shoulders.

They're like, I don't understand why I'm hitting these blocks.

I don't understand why I'm hitting these slices over here.

And it's because this rotation is not allowing for the club to square up.

Now, also what comes with that is you can't yank it.

If you start to work through here, it's not about muscling it with the arm.

Remember, the number one rule of being a left side releaser, you're being passive.

So when you start to work down here, if you start to yank your arm and hand for power, you're going to start to raise your lead shoulder too high too soon.

You're going to start to hit them thin.

You're going to start to experience tops and blocks.

It's not about muscular effort with this lead arm.

As you can see, I'm not a very big guy.

Alright five nine and a half tell people I'm 510 Well, that was fun.

No idea what happened there.

I apologize.

Everybody back now?

Okay.

It got me a little worried for a second there.

Sorry for the technical difficulty.

I just looked at the screen.

Everything went black.

So in this left side release for this lead side release, as you start to come down here, You can't muscle this thing.

That's the biggie.

It's not about arm strength.

So not sure where the feet left off.

I'm not a very big guy.

All right.

But I can create a massive amount of club head speed.

I can get up in the 117s, 18s, 19s, what have you.

But it's not due to the fact that I'm muscling things through.

I'm using.

My big body pivot.

I'm a big fan of wit, so I'm using my big body pivot in my wit.

My legs, stretching my muscles, pulling leverage from the ground.

I mean, we can get into like paramedic acceleration and stuff, but we don't need to get into all that.

As we start to work down into here, I'm using the leverage pull from the ground.

I'm allowing everything to build up and at the last moment, let this club go and work independently of my body.

which is the big one.

In a left side release, you must let the club work independently of the body or it's all for naught.

The club will not square itself and you will not have that speed.

I'm getting down here and slamming on the brakes so that this club starts screaming through.

Got all that momentum coming in, this club rotating, all the speed to be delivered.

It comes from the fact that I slam on the brake and the club has to work independently of the body.

Okay?

But you've got to be chilled out to do that.

It's not about muscular effort.

Okay?

Now, on the flip side of the equation, the right side release or the trail side release?

The trail side release, if you don't like that whole letting go, laid back, it can be a little bit more about effort because it kind of is.

Now you can kind of choose whether you want to be a little bit more effort or clubface control is more your forte.

Okay.

So when we look at the right side release, the arm and hand is going to extend from the shoulder like throwing a ball.

Okay.

So just like throwing a ball, it's going to extend from the shoulder like throwing a ball.

Now this can be very powerful.

Okay, we've got three different levers to work with.

You got the shoulder elevation.

You got the flexion from your elbow.

You got your wrist load.

And when you get here, you can use that to propel and work into impact and exert some steam on that club so you can get that onto the golf ball.

That may be better suited for people.

You know, one of the things that we see is that when people start working on Axiom and we have them doing right arm only, this sequence of kind of shifting and clearing the hips and throwing the balls, very natural.

A lot of people have grown up throwing balls.

So this makes a lot of sense.

They're like, oh, okay, well, I can start working down with the club right here and I can exert this force with my right hand to apply more speed.

No problem, have at We've always talked about how the left side is the control side and the right side your power side.

Well, it's still the case.

Both arms still have a job in whichever release that you pick, but this side can add a little bit more force.

You've got these three levers to work with.

Now, the big key is people start to get confused in these two sections right here.

Shoulders may open slightly or right hand will add stability for impact.

Let's talk about the shoulder issue first.

When you're using more of a right side release, as Chuck stated, it's going to work a little bit more like a three-stage rocket system.

So as you start to move the inside and you're getting that weight and the club shallows out, you're going to use your right hip, which is going to be the first one, your right shoulder, and then your right arm.

That's going to be the kind of sequence of using this right side.

So if you kind of look at me from down the line here, as you start to work into here, you're going to use the right hip, you're going to use the right shoulder, and you're going to use the right arm.

Now, I'm not saying, like, let's start spinning our shoulders or driving just hard from the right side.

If you just start getting to this position and just start driving your right shoulder and right arm without doing anything, you're just going to start getting steep and digging it into the ground.

there's still a sequence to this.

The right hip's driving, as you're already doing with the big toe, getting the hips to clear, the right shoulder's moving in front, and then you have your right arm pushing through, or thrusting through, whatever, whatever nomenclature works best.

So if the shoulder's open slightly, it's not the biggest thing in the world, because you are actually controlling this face right now, not Sir Isaac Newton.

Left side, the club's rotating itself, this one, you're actually forcing or controlling that club into impact, just following the same principles you've just done with axiom.

As you start to move to the inside, you've got the toe pushing, with the right hip, the right shoulder and the right arm coming through.

Now this benefits two types of players one the player that wants to use muscle.

All right, because you can use.

You're forced to propel this more.

So for people that just, they got to be in control, control freaks out there, and they work out and they're big and strong, you can use that muscular effort.

That's why a right side release swing is going to be a little bit more compact.

It's going to be a little bit more tidied up.

But this also can benefit the players that just hit it all over the face.

Now, I'm going to warn you or putting a warning label on this.

As I start to work through impact right here and I start to rotate more, it's obviously going to put a little bit more stress on my spine.

It has to.

Two things your spine hates is sheer force and compressive force.

But if you have a good spine and you don't get crazy with it, that's the big thing.

When we show and demonstrate things, we're showing a little bit of exaggerations because if I didn't show the exaggerations, you'd barely see it.

But if you're somebody that's always struggled with getting that clubface square and kind of hitting the good spot on the clubface.

Instead of it kind of being all over, as you start to work down from here, you can start to allow for a little bit more rotation and keep the clubface a little bit more down the line longer.

Because it's going to allow you to not have so much kind of variability in what that face is doing at impact.

So a player that's not really strong but struggles with getting that clubface square, As you're working on this same thing and the right hip's coming down and the shoulder and arm and hand, you can allow for a little bit more rotation from the body to hold that face a little bit square so you can hit a little bit better quality of shot.

Now, with anything in life, when you start taking from one area, you're going to delete the other area.

If you think about kind of like a bar graph, you start allowing for more of this, it's going to slow down a little bit of club head speed, but you're going to get more stability of the face.

You're going to get better contact.

So it's just give and take.

You can either add a little bit more effort, or if you're like, I don't really care about the distance and all that, I hit it plenty far, but I kind of hit it all over the face.

Well, then as you're using this working through impact, you can let a little bit of the chest open and keep it square a little bit longer.

You don't have to exert all this crazy amount of massive force.

So those are the two differences.

And you'll see the pictures up here.

This is a still of Chuck using a little bit more of a right side release.

So you'll see the shoulders are slightly open.

I'm not saying get to impact and be like this.

Slightly.

You'll see that his right hips are driving, his right shoulders driving, and the arm and hands extending through and feeling like it's staying a little bit more down the line.

Now, I've put this one in here because in the left side release, I think that the right side picture really depicts what you're going to kind of feel when you're doing the left side.

To most of you, it is going to feel like your shoulders are closed.

As many clinics as I've taught and Chris has taught and Chuck's taught, anytime somebody's working on a left side release, we see it all the time.

Shoulders wide open.

They're like, I don't know why I'm hitting it right.

Well, look at your shoulders.

For most players being a left side release, you're almost going to feel Like your chest and your upper half stay a little bit closed because you're so used to spinning.

You're so used to doing a ton with your upper half.

So you're going to see how Chuck's chest is square, almost even slightly closed.

The hips are still working, but the club's releasing itself into the back.

But I think that's the big one that we see.

If you get the leg work down, you can't use the shoulders.

So how are we going to do this?

Or how do I want you to do this?

Well, as with the Axiom, as you're going through and you're still working on getting these components down, I want you to take both these out and I want you to test drive them.

Now I'm going to change it up just a little bit kind of how I want you to test drive them though.

I was thinking about this this morning actually.

So when you go out and test drive this, And you see whether you're a little bit more left side or you see a little bit more right side.

With the left side, I kind of want you to work up.

So you can see right here as I'm doing kind of more of a left side lead hand release.

I'm making a full swing here and I'm getting up here and still following my pressure stiff, still using my legs.

Nothing changes.

I seem to find that players have a little bit more of a harder time kind of starting out in that foray.

and they tend to yank, and that's kind of the big thing.

I don't want you to not think that this doesn't work for you just because you went too big or tried to soar too high too soon.

You're like, well, left side release doesn't work for me, but it's just that you got into yanking because you made the swing too big too early, okay?

So your homework to go test out the left side release.

The first thing I want you to do, and Chris has got a really good video on this.

I don't know exactly the section, but it's play the best golf of your life in six weeks video to a six.

Really good video.

With the left side release, I just want you to kind of get a feel for letting the club just rotate back and forth here for a second.

Just delete all the tension in your left arm.

And if you can do this at home, get up and do this with me, okay?

Don't take a chunk out of your hardwood or anything.

I'm not liable for any of that.

But if at home you can do this, get up.

Let's do this together.

I want you to take your setup.

Don't worry about any other crazy mechanics or anything like that right now.

I just want you to start feeling the club rotate back and forth.

Just start feeling how this arm and hand kind of swings from the shoulder socket like a pendulum.

Okay.

Just kind of get a feel for it.

You don't have no big swing.

Just kind of keep it down here, belt high to belt high.

But just kind of get a feeling for how this club works back and forth.

I really want you to just kind of get lulled into, oh, I feel the toe rotate, square, and rotate over.

I don't want to see the club face facing the sky.

There's no need to get here and then just rip it inside.

All you're doing is just letting the toe rotate.

And rotate.

Just getting out some tension.

Just kind of letting it be.

I mean, I could sit here and do this for an hour because that's how much effort I'm not applying.

Just sit here and do this back and forth.

Once you can kind of shake a little bit of that tension out, you can get a little bit of feel for the release.

The beauty with the lead side release is you can start out a little bit on the smaller versions.

So I want you to take your setup.

I want you to take your left arm.

And I want you to just feel.

these nice little pressure shifts and start to make the swing a little bit longer and longer.

Now, keep in mind, still rotate, still do everything that we've done up until this point.

But I kind of want you to build up into it.

So you kind of get this left arm going, getting that tension out, and then just start kind of moving just a little bit more, feeling the pressure shift, but feeling that same kind of laissez -fairness in the release.

Now, what I want you to notice is I'm doing this, going my pressure shift, still got my rotation.

My tension level is zero in my arm hand and club.

I'm just feeling the club rotate back and forth.

Notice how when I get over here, what position am I in right here?

You're going to see that my hip is stacked.

My hips are still clear.

My shoulders aren't spun open.

When you start to kind of do this, you're going to have to kind of be a little bit of your own doctor on this.

You're going to have to check some points so they know like, oh, am I releasing it?

Or am I just kind of getting away with things?

Or I feel like I'm doing it right, but the ball's not going worth a darn.

So as you go from here and you kind of get some momentum out or you get some momentum going, but you take this tension out and you start to swing through here.

and you're moving through your pressure shift, and you're moving through the positions.

When you get over to here and you hit the shot, what I want you to start looking for is your shoulders open.

Is the club released?

Are you staying passive enough to let this club release?

In fact, you can see my club's a little bit toe down right now.

Okay?

Am I off my right side?

Did my hips still clear?

Did my weight get over here?

You still have to hit.

The same kind of fundamental checkpoints of what we were doing with Axiom.

You're moving through, the weight got over here, the hip cleared, the club released.

But you have to start getting that feeling of this releasing kind of independently in the club squaring itself.

And you can't do that if you're hanging back over here, your shoulders are spun open.

And what else?

One of our biggest pet peeves.

The head.

When you're doing this left side release and you're moving through your axiom positions, just getting a feel for swinging the left arm and releasing, as you start to work down into the release position, you can't have this.

And what am I doing wrong right there?

I'm looking down the fairway, interested in the result.

Where the eyes go, the head goes.

Where the head goes, the shoulders go.

And what I tell you about the shoulders that you can't do in a left side release.

So when you're doing this, you have to keep the head down.

Until your club is fully released, I don't want you looking at what's going on with that stupid golf ball.

All right?

Because especially if you do that, golf ball is probably going to fly the way that you want it to.

So you don't have to worry about it.

It's just going to kind of go straight.

Maybe a touch of baby draw on it.

So you'll know where it is.

You don't need a four caddy.

But the big thing is, is you have to turn it off.

You're moving through your axiom movements, and you're starting to get the feel, this club releasing independently, that your hips are open, your shoulders are square, the club release, and the head down.

Now, the difference in this is going to be when we switch to a little bit more of a right side.

The right side, I really wouldn't recommend kind of starting off small and then kind of building up into just a little bit more of a fluid, more kind of classical-looking swing.

The right side, it's going to be hard to just kind of get here and kind of throw your right arm and hand at it without the left arm on the club, or at least I've come to find that out in my own testing with students and myself.

So with the right arm, it's still going to kind of be that kind of three-quarter, a little bit more compact, buttoned-up swing.

Now, we have to be very careful with this.

As you're doing this with the right arm, it's obviously going to follow the same principles you've done in your axiom mode, okay?

So you're moving your pressure back to six o'clock, you're still rotating, and we're going to kind of make this a little bit more compact, three-quarter looking swing.

And then as you start to come down and you're moving the pressure shift and you start to move towards the toe, you're going to feel like you're slinging a rock or throwing the club.

You need to start to get the feel of kind of the whipping action.

You're moving to here, you start to come down, and you let the club whip.

Now you'll see, I'm still letting this club rotate.

This is by far the number one thing that I see when people start trying to do right side, is they get here, and they start working up towards the top, and they hold it like this.

This club is still releasing.

Okay?

It's just going to be a little bit more stable through here because you're controlling it just a little bit more with this right side.

You're using that kind of three-stage rocket.

You move the pressure shift in this way.

You're driving the right hip, the shoulder, the arm, and hand through.

But the club still releases.

As I said earlier, we exaggerate sometimes just to show on camera.

Okay?

But I want you to get a feel for doing it that way.

Here, here, here.

Let it go.

The shoulders may open up a little bit.

You may feel a little bit more down the line.

You may get off this right side a little bit more because you start feeling that this right hip really wants to help kind of engage and thrust this arm and hand through.

But the big thing is, I think you need to test them both.

I've done both in my career.

Chuck's even done both.

He's kind of gone from one to another and then back to another.

Tiger has done the same thing.

But this may be a little bit more natural with all the training that you've already done.

Like, hey, you know what?

I can get this.

I don't need to spend six months to get this feeling.

I can kind of refine this a little bit more on the sooner side.

But test them out.

Follow the same axiom principles we've been doing all the way up to this point.

Okay, still using the pressure stuff, still getting the clockwise nature of the swing coming down, and then as you get through here, test them out both.

Get the feel for them.

One's going to tend to lend itself to a certain type of player.

Okay.

Our goal, if my screen will change, Our goal between now and Tuesday's session is to kind of pick a sign.

I don't expect everybody to get this in that short amount of time.

I do not.

But start to plant the seed.

Start to kind of decide.

You know what?

On Saturday, I tried this a little bit.

After doing my Axiom reps, as you will see there.

Saturday, I tried this a little bit.

Sunday, I did the same thing.

Monday, I'll tell you what, over those three days, one just felt a little bit better than the other.

It just seems like this isn't going to be such a chore.

Maybe the left side.

You're like, oh, you know what?

I kind of like what this ball is doing.

Kind of feels a little bit more natural to me.

It might be the right side where it's like, you know what?

I just really like adding force.

I really like doing something.

And if I can do something and feel more in control, I think I can get this.

But the goal is to test it out.

It's not really to go and master the movement or put in as many reps as you can.

Like I don't want you to go out there today or on Sunday and be like, all right, I'm going to make 200 lead arm only swings and I'm going to get this lead side release down.

Now I'm going to make 200 trail arm only swings and I'm going to get, that's not the goal.

The goal is to find out what works best for you.

I want you playing better golf on the sooner side.

Okay?

So I want you to kind of be aware of which one's like, you know what?

Yeah, like it might not be perfect, but I can kind of refine this really fast.

I can make this work.

That's the goal.

It's not the number of reps.

It's to start to plant the seed like, you know what?

I'm going to start to draw a line in the sand.

I'm going to focus.

I'm going to commit on being more of a right-side releaser.

That just fits me better.

Or I'm going to be more of a left-side releaser.

I'm just more of a laid-back guy.

I'm going to let the club do what it wants to do.

That's the goal.

You keep getting down your reps of working on your pressure shift and working on your legs.

And moving through these positions so that you keep owning them.

But start to plant the seed.

Which side is going to be dominant?

Or which side do you want to be dominant?

Because that's going to be what I need to use or what we're going to use in the next section.

Because I don't like wasting any reps.

Okay?

Don't like wasting reps.

So by the time we get there and you start really repping then, I want you to kind of know which path and which direction you're going.

Okay?

So between now and Tuesday, we continue to rep our body, arm, and club.

Some of you at this point may still just be on the foot, going around my pressure, getting my hip cleared.

Some of you at this point may be like, oh, I got that.

It's arm or it's both hands.

Continue to rep at the pace that you need it right now.

But start kind of drawing a line in the sand.

I want to be a right side or left side.

I don't expect it to be 100%.

Start to be a little bit aware of it because on Tuesday, I'm going to want you to really start working and really start kind of refining and making that the kind of driver of your car.

Okay?

So looking at this screen right here, it looks like I've got a couple questions up there.

All right.

So with that, let's do some questions.

All right.

I think that's kind of all I want to say.

You want to see different views.

You want to see different angles.

Let's try to keep the questions on the topic at hand or the previous topic.

All right.

I don't want to talk about refinement yet and perfecting it or anything like that.

But if you have questions about what we're doing with the Axiom portion, you have questions about what we're doing with the release portion, have at it.

All right.

If you need to see things from different angles, you know, if you want to see it from up the line, if you want to see it from down the line, whatever you want, let's go ahead and start firing them through.

It looks like Chris has been doing a little bit there.

And if you have questions just for me, You know, why I'm a lead side releaser, why I haven't gone back to a trail side releaser.

Open forum.

But please, try to post the questions on the question bank, okay?

The chat bank is virtually impossible for me to get because it just flies right through with where I am.

So if you have a question, please post it on the question bank.

All right.

So let me see where I kind of left off.

All right.

Well, we will start with, let's see.

I don't know how many of those have been answered.

So we'll go with Gerald right here.

That's where I'm going to start.

If your question's above Gerald, just post it again.

I apologize.

I was just trying to get through this.

You said that the right side right hand keeps the space square longer, but you also said that the left hand is still the control hand.

Please clarify, is the left a passive passenger?

Okay, so the left is still controlling things, but what you'll notice as I start to work through here with my right arm and hand, if I'm maintaining my elbow position, and the flexion in my wrist to exert force down here at impact, what's my lead wrist?

Well, my lead wrist is going to be flat to bode as it is in a left hand release.

The left hand still has a job, okay?

One side is more dominant than the other, but that doesn't mean that this still doesn't have any control over it.

You're feeling the force in the effort that you're using with this hand, but that just doesn't mean that this hand's dead, all right?

Doesn't mean that it's dead.

Now, in a left side release, you might as well just go ahead and cut this thing off.

But it is a little bit more of a kind of a passive conduit of power.

Okay?

You're just not controlling any face angles with it.

Both hands still have a job.

Just one's more dominant than the other.

It's not that on the right hand one, this one's dead.

Chris, I had a swinger review, so I have several spinal flus you said for me.

I'll leave that one for you, Chris.

Please do slow motion of the foot movement on all angles.

Okay.

So as I'm making this pressure shift and I'm moving around my foot from here, you're starting.

Don't think about starting at 12.

You're going 3, 6, 9, back to 12.

And that's what creates the ankle orbit, and that's what creates the hip orbit.

Okay.

So this movement, you move back to 6, 9, get off the toe.

3, 6, 9, get off the toe.

We don't want to see this foot lifting this way, nor as you start to go back towards that heel.

And you move back towards six and like I said, this is a big section with this release, and I have no idea why that's on the screen.

As you start to come down through here, you probably haven't picked which side is kind of controlling things.

So you're probably coming through here, and you're kind of spinning open your shoulders a little bit with a little tension in the hands, which is probably leaving the face a little bit open right now.

Just kind of the nature of the beast with that.

At what point do you know whether to choose right or left release and what will it feel like?

Kind of aha moment.

The aha moment with this is a little bit tough.

It'll obviously take more time than kind of what we have in between this session and Tuesday's session.

I can tell you mine.

The big thing was my big aha moment of going, I guess, TV just doesn't care anymore.

My big aha moment of just going from a right side release to a left side release is how simple it was for me to hit it straight.

I felt like my effort point was at 1%, but the ball is compressed and jumping off the face and going dead straight every time.

I'm like, why is this ball going straight?

I'm not making it go straight.

This doesn't make any sense to Because I'd always had made things happen.

And then the more and more I had that feeling of, wow, I'm not really doing hardly anything, but the ball's doing the same thing every single time.

My aha moment was, for the first time, not controlling things actually gave me control.

The old adage of you give up control to gain control drove me absolutely insane when I was a kid.

My aha moment was actually realizing that.

The less that I actually did, the better it actually went.

Oh, that just made a big jump.

Left side, we should stop and be square with the shoulders.

It put on the brakes.

I seem to hit behind the ball.

So with left side, if you're stopping with the shoulders and you seem to hit behind the ball, there's three things that I want you to check.

The very first thing is making sure you're just not pushing with that thumb.

So you can take the thumb off.

If you're doing the left side, you can take the thumb off just to make sure you're not throwing that thumb.

The other two things that I want you to check is to make sure that you did get your weight over here and you did get your hip cleared.

You've got to provide space for this.

You need the clearance of the hips to provide the space to work into impact.

And remember, as you're sitting here and posting up, you're moving in which direction?

You're moving back and away to get the club to go down and out.

Well, if you start to work through here, right side or left side, you start to work into impact here and your hips stall out, well, you're either going to get this, pushing with the thumb, you're going to yank with the arm.

You don't have the space.

So you have to make sure that the hips finish their weight and keep releasing.

Same thing with the right hand.

If you don't keep the hips going and get those hips cleared in a right hand release, You're just gonna steepen the angle.

This leading head's gonna dig and you're gonna hit a chunk or you're gonna hit this big old flip hook.

You start to work down into this position.

You forget about the hips and you're like, I'm just gonna concentrate on throwing my right arm, but you don't move your hips.

Well, what's that club gonna do?

Then you're gonna hit a big old right-handed flip hook.

So check your thumb, make sure you move those legs.

Okay, so now.

When I hit ball to my right hand only, no problem.

I hit ball like 20-yard crisp.

Left arm only, the ball goes nowhere hard to make contact.

I'm more of a right-side player.

Can't make that decision for you, Gregory.

But I will say this.

I'm going to go back.

So left arm only, ball goes nowhere.

Left arm only requires you to move.

So if you're just getting there like this left arm only and you're not moving your legs, you need this buildup with the weight, the post, and the effortless release.

You're probably just arming it, which is why muscular effort with the arm and a lead side release is going to lead to nothing.

But if you did 20 balls and everything's just like, man, this feels great.

Why fight it?

Looking at your swing, Greg?

I would tend to say I understand why right side fits you a little bit better.

Not making that decision for you.

Can you demonstrate with impact bag, drill for left side?

Looks like.

Drill with impact bag, drill for left side.

So if you're left side, as you start to work through here, And you're moving through your pressure shift, you're moving through your axiom and your line for a big pivot.

Because you have to have a big pivot to work through here as you start to work down into this position, this is going to be what it looks like at impact.

The hips are open, 35 45 degrees.

You can see my right foot isn't flat on the ground, slightly up on the outer edge, my shoulders are square.

Glove logo is facing the target.

Wrist is flat to bode.

Club face square.

The biggest thing that we usually see when people go through here is they're like that.

So now my chest is open and my head's rotating down the fairway right now.

So this doesn't allow this club to release.

It stays open right here.

So as you start to do a left side release and you work through this pressure shift, you're letting it go.

So your hips are going to be open.

Your shoulders are going to feel more square.

Okay?

All right, so that's to Chris.

When moving the pressure from six to nine, it looks like you are driving the left knee.

Is that just a consequence of foot pressure?

Great question.

So when I'm moving from six to nine, okay, I've got this orbit in my hip that's starting to shift.

Well, what is my left knee going to do?

Am I trying to make this and keep my left knee pointed behind the ball?

The very first thing when you start.

to kind of shift weight in the downswing.

One of the very first things that happens is this lead knee externally rotates.

Chris has a video, I think it's called Fixing Your Weight Transfer, that he talks about this first move where this lead knee externally rotates.

And we also have which muscles do you use in golf swing transition where Chuck kind of highlights.

with all the fancy equipment like muscle engagement and stuff like that.

But this first move is this lead knee rotates, externally rotates.

I'm just allowing, as I go from six to nine, I'm just allowing my lead leg and lead hip to react.

I've just created this orbit.

And now with my hip getting over there, that would feel kind of wonky to keep my knee that way.

I'm just allowing it to rotate because my hips are squaring and my weight is shifting.

So you're just allowing for that lead knee to externally rotate.

Compact and left side release might be good for this group.

Good for 50 plus age group.

Well, typically in a left side release, it's not going to be a very compact swing.

But if you have a tendency to be a little bit more laid back, you're using more physics.

So if you can use the body pivot and rotation and work down here with your legs, if you don't like exerting a lot of force, it may be a good option.

Can't tell you which, but it's typically not going to be that compact of a swing.

Now for me, for instance, as I start to load and rotate to the top, that's my full backswing, all right?

I'm a big fan of width.

I don't really like a whole lot of lag, but I'm a big fan of width.

So mine's compact and I have a left side release, but I have to really make sure that I get a full shoulder rotation and I have a ton of width so that I keep my power up.

So I can't really say which one's better for others, but if your spine hurts and your body hurts, left side might be a little bit better for you because it's just less effort.

But if you're one of those, I'm going to do something, get that right side involved.

Let's see.

No problem, Jeff.

Good answer to impact bag position and foot for left side.

Please do right side.

impact body foot position with bag.

It's not really going to change that much, Gerald.

So that's what the, one of the things that obviously I hope I stressed enough was that the left side release and right side releases, all the swings practically staying the same except for this tiny bit in the release portion.

You're still shifting away all that fun stuff.

So if I'm using a little bit more of a right side release, Yeah, you technically can move the ball a little bit back if you want.

Just a hair versus a left side release.

But as I'm working through here more on a right side release, for me, I'm going to be a little bit more like this.

Okay?

So you're going to see I've really got a lot of angle.

I've really kind of delivered this right arm and hand into this position.

You're going to see that my chest is just a little bit more open here.

Now, you can still technically have that square, but for me, for a right side release to get my right arm and hand, hip, shoulder, extending up there.

You're going to see that my chest is just slightly open right here.

My foot was a little more aggressive because I was trying to add more kind of thrust from that right hip, right shoulder for power.

I'm working through here and I'm adding more right hip, right shoulder here, thrust for power.

So when I get down to this position right here and I'm doing more of a right side release, everything stays the same.

But you're going to see, forward shaft lean may be a little bit exaggerated right here, but I'm getting off this right side with a little bit more force.

Chest might be slightly more open.

And what you'll also kind of see down the line is I work through here and I get into this position, and my side bend's starting to kind of increase just a little bit there because my head's staying down, my right shoulder's getting just a little bit lower, my left a little bit higher.

But I was more aggressive with this side.

with my hip action and letting my right arm and hand and shoulder kind of throw into the ball.

So it's just slight tweaks, okay?

It's not that crazy different.

Thanks, Chris and Craig on Compact Left Answer.

No problem, Mohan.

Hopefully your son's watching this too.

How do we keep the feel and not have swing thoughts if we're trying to focus on being right side or left?

Because this is a feel.

Like I said, I don't care about the crazy mechanics of it right now.

The checkpoints I was giving you on the left side versus right side is just if you start trying it and the ball's going all over the place and you're like, I don't know which side to pick.

I still want you making your axiom feel and just swinging the lead arm to the top and letting it release.

But if you're swinging your lead arm to the top and letting it release, but by the time you get down to impact right here, your shoulders are like this, it doesn't matter whether you're using left side or right side.

Neither of them are going to work.

So the checkpoints I'm giving you is just so that when you're experimenting with it, like, Okay, I'm feeling my way through my axiom.

Lead arm only or left arm only?

All right, well, not really hitting the ball well, Craig told me.

Like, you know, I can't have my chest wide open, so just slow down the chest a little bit, or I can't be looking way down the fairway.

Just keep the head down a little, that's to help you.

Um, Kind of dial it down if nothing's working.

Well, look at a couple checkpoints.

Make sure that you're somewhat doing it correctly.

You don't have to have everything perfect, but somewhat doing it correctly so you can get some results from it.

All right.

I think that's it.

Any other questions on my end?

Anybody?

Bueller?

Saturday morning, you're going to have somewhat of a sense of humor.

No questions.

Nothing else on my end.

Kind of gone dark.

Well, I guess that's it then.

thank you for giving me an opportunity today.

Thanks for coming in.

Thanks for stopping by.

I apologize about the little blip.

I have no idea what happened on that.

I'm just glad that it reconnected back and we got it to work.

If you don't have the PDF, send me an email real fast.

I'll get it to you.

The main thing is keep up with your reps.

Keep up with the feel.

I want you to go experiment.

Go try out.

See which one fits you better.

Okay?

I don't expect you to own it or be like, oh, I'm just diehard this, but kind of get a seed planted.

Yeah, this one kind of feels a little bit more natural.

That way, on Tuesday, when we really start using it, you can kind of stick with that motion, okay?

You can kind of stick with that.

So if no other questions, thank you again.

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I see one more question.

I'm going to answer that, and then I'm going to duck on out.

What causes the right knee to replace the left knee at the end of the swing?

As you are moving off your pressure shift from 9 o'clock, you are pushing off this side.

You're using the push off this foot and the left hip clearing.

So you're using the push with this left hip clearing and left leg straightening.

That's how we work to this position, or this kind of.

Left knee replaces the right in this full finish.

You're using the pressure shift, you're being dynamic, getting off of this trail foot.

Okay, we're being dynamic, you're letting the lead hip react.

Remember, we got a great question earlier.

When you start to make this pressure shift, where does the weight and where does the movement go on the lead leg?

Well, as I make my pressure shift this way, My weight's going to move towards the ball of my foot and then quickly move back towards my heel.

As it moves towards the ball of the foot, quickly back towards my heel, my lead leg's going to straighten.

My left hip's going to clear.

And my right knee, since I'm adding this kind of push off this big toe, I'm getting the weight off that side and it's taking the place of the left knee.

All right.

All good?

All right.

Well, everybody, I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Thank you again.

And I think we're good.

All right.

Have a good weekend.

See you Tuesday.

Go rep.

Go test out both sides.